Mahmoud Abbas’s Efforts to Exacerbate the Conflict in Gaza
Why Fatah denounces any cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.
August 23, 2018
Remembering Israel’s Only Oscar-Winning Director
Moshe Mizrahi.
A native of the Egyptian city of Alexandria, Moshe Mizrahi—who died this month at the age of eighty-six—came to the land of Israel with his family just after World War II. In the 1950s, he moved to France and began writing film criticism, but did not direct his first movie, The Customer of the Off Season—about a French concentration-camp guard who takes refuge in Israel under an assumed identity—until 1970. Liel Leibovitz reflects on his career:
August 23, 2018
Why the War in Yemen Matters
A tale of two bombings.
No, Israel Isn’t Turning into a Police State—but the Shin Bet Shouldn’t Be Interrogating Journalists at Airports
Stupidity, not policy.
Leonard Bernstein’s Brother: A Forgotten but Talented Observer of American Jewish Life
Burton Bernstein’s Family Matters.
Remembering Israel’s Only Oscar-Winning Director
Moshe Mizrahi.